Have worthy friends || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Can a man and a woman be just friends? || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)

Transcript

00:00Make friends with a few worthy girls and that's not exactly the same as having a girlfriend.

00:08I do not mean to say that there is something wrong with having a girlfriend.

00:11Go ahead and have girlfriends if that pleases you.

00:15Right now the point we are discussing is whether men and women can be friends.

00:19Yes, they must be friends. Not just can be, they must be friends.

00:24Do not become one of those macho characters who hangs about in his guy circle and scoffs at women.

00:32Six hunks drinking all night and doing all boy stuff.

00:37That turns you into some kind of a caricature.

00:41There is no special glory in that.

00:45Let that not be set as an example.

00:48As long as men and women will be treated as two separate universes, that will amount to a lot of over-sexualization.